45 new officially confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 7,060 as of the night of July 23, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP).

MoHSPP says 5,793 (82 percent) COVID-19 patients have recovered as of the night of July 23, 2020.  52 coronavirus survivors were reportedly discharged from hospitals yesterday.

According to a MoHSPP, 58 officially confirmed COVID-19-linked deaths have been reported in the country as of the night of July 23.    

135 people hospitalized on suspicion of contracting COVID-19 are under supervision of doctors, the ministry says  

Meanwhile, people in Tajikistan are waiting with fear for the second wave of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).  People are worried about information on the increasing number of cases of COVID-19 in the Sughd province. The acting Director of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Service of Tajikistan, Navrouz Jaffarov, however, says that it is premature to speak about the second wave of the disease in the country.  

The COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).  The virus was confirmed to have spread to Tajikistan when its index cases, in Dushanbe and Khujand, were confirmed on April 30, 2020.